432. A Summer Reading List to Improve Your Health, Wealth, and Happiness

In this episode, Betsy and Laura share the books that have changed their lives, elevated their business, and supported their personal growth journey. Tune in to a lighthearted and hilarious conversation about the stories that have stuck to our souls and changed our lives.

• [3:00] Readers are leaders, living a well-rounded life.
• [4:30] Stories that stick to your soul.
• [7:00] Deconditioning through reading.
• [10:00] Our Favorite Money Books.
• [12:50] Our Favorite Productivity Books.
• [15:48] Our Favorite Health / Healing Books.
• [21:15] Our Favorite Spiritual Books.
• [24:40] On Grief and Grieving.
• [27:50] Our Favorite Business Books.
• [31:30] Our Favorite Memoirs.

BETSY’S RECOMMENDED READING LIST:

• Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
• American Gods by Neil Gaiman
• A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
• Happy Money by Ken Honda
• The Way of Integrity by Martha Beck
• Breath by James Nestor
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
• On Grief and Grieving by David Kessler and Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
• Gene Keys by Richard Rudd
• My Life in France by Julia Child
• The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

LAURA’S RECOMMENDED READING LIST: 

• The Art of Racing Through the Rain by Garth Stein
• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
• Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
• The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
• The Psychology of Money by Morgan House
• Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
• The Choice by Dr. Edith Eva Eger
• Loving What Is by Byron Katie
• Built to Sell by John Warrillow
• Wild by Cheryl Strayed
• Educated by Tara Westover
• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED: 

• The Huntress by Kate Quinn
• The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
• The Secret Life of Bletchley Park by Sinclair McKay
• The Soul of Money by Lynne Twist
• Rocket Fuel by Gino Wickman and Mark C. Winters
• Ogilvy on Advertising by David Ogilvy
• The Fourth Turning by Neil Howe and William Strauss
• The Longest Echo by Eoin Dempsey